Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree." (Ellen Hopkins)

Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you

I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.

Cleansed, chlorinated to the point of chemical peel, sore muscles relieved, I felt almost human again. Tiptoe to my room, up a darkened hall, past closed doors, I wondered if I'd ever feel completely human again.

I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.

Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever.